#callioposte

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Just-just ues.

Branzy is not some innocent waif by any means, but I feel like everyone misunderstands the ways in which he matches Clown’s freak. Particularly, they want to subvert what they view as the architypical dynamic between Branzy and Clown without any real regard to how Branzy's personality actually meshes with Clown's. They recognize that Clown’s intimidation of Branzy is surface level, but don’t seem to grasp what’s going on below that to give Branzy his own edge over Clown.

Branzy is a homicidal maniac in his own right, and certainly has aspirations of being the kind of murder machine that Clown is, but he just does not have the fighting skill to back it up, nor was he a particularly skilled engineer when he first joined Lifesteal. At his core, Branzy is a coward. He gravitates towards whichever player or team he thinks is going to protect him, and he'll stroke their ego to get in their good graces. He gets by on his charisma and charm.

Clown, despite having a clear advantage over Branzy, still frequently comes across as uncomfortable with Branzy's attention, while also craving it and seeking it out. He's also a deeply reserved individual. Even when he's emoting he's still very quiet and even tempered. He plays his cards close to his chest. He's a loner. He has his reputation in part because he's unreadable and intimidating. He was coming off of a season where he hadn't died a single time. He’s an unstoppable force without an immovable object.

So here's the scenario: You're a stoic assassin. Usually you like to work alone. Other people slow you down. But you want revenge and you want to execute it in a particular manner that just happens to be outside of your wheelhouse. You have to team up with someone, and it just so happens you know someone with passable talent and a common enemy. You can tell he's afraid of you, and he should be, because he can't even beat Spepticle in a fight, how would he ever take on you?

But he's also... strangely affectionate. You box him in and he lets you, even as he's shaking with fright. You flirt and he flirts back. You're used to letting your reputation speak for itself, but here he is singing your praises to anyone who will listen. He puts all the credit for the collaboration on you, and downplays his own contribution. He sticks around even after you've exacted your revenge, and he still has nothing but good things to say about you, no matter how much you push and prod and scare and tease.

The fundamental difference between Branzy and Clown is vulnerability. Branzy has had no choice but to embrace his, while Clown has done everything in his power to excise it from himself entirely. Branzy allows himself to have big emotions and Clown barely speaks above a whisper at any given moment. When it comes to a fight, of course there isn’t much that can scare Minecraft’s Deadliest Assassin. But Clown has no idea how to navigate emotions, while emotions are Branzy’s greatest asset. People relate to Branzy, they trust him, and he uses it to manipulate them right into their traps. He can trick others’ emotionally as easily as Clown can cut them down with his sword. His relationship with Clown was made on the foundation of betrayal; he sacrificed his alliance with Vitalasy for Clown's protection. It was more important to him to stay on Clown's good side than remain loyal to his previous team, and this is because he felt, with 100% certainty, that Clown offered him more than Vitalasy did. And Vitalasy never saw it coming. 

That’s what makes Branzy so terrifying to Clown. Because he trusts Branzy. He lets his guard down around Branzy. He lets himself be vulnerable with Branzy. What if Branzy’s just manipulating him too? Or worse. 

What if he’s not?

[megaxard]

look at this fuckign picture my mom took yesterday. she took it because of callie but you can clearly see im in a dungeon

[magnecalliope]

Every time Fizz broke the COAI Code of Ethics during 2 Minutes Notice + the one time he upheld it. :)

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Fallout: New Vegas (2010) is a game about cycles of violence and the ways we recreate the circumstances that led us to it. It's about the tribalism tendencies, the us vs them, that divides us arbitrarily into opposing groups working against our own interests for some grander goal. The annihilation of enemies, the annihilation of self.

It's also about Casinos! Gambling! Sell your friends to Fancy Cannibals! Blow up the Strip, act like you don't know no one! Sleep with your own Murderer! Yippee! Yippee!

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For an Owlet, the comfiest bed is your big sister

inspired by this post from dozydawn:

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If he wins I sell Arcade to Caesar if we win he goes partying with us

vulpes: @vulpesincultabignaturals

arcade: @clownfrills

six: me!

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do you know how difficult it is to find fandom blogs to follow when you're normal about evil characters

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I think The Full Moon is a really good example of what people are talking about when they criticize Marvel and other productions for obsessing over making the most unpredictable ending ever, to the point that they'll outright change the direction a story is going if the audience guesses the twist, even if it makes no sense and creates a worse, less cohesive story as a result.

We all knew how Stolas giving Blitzø the Asmodean Crystal was going to go. I have literally been reading fanfics that capture the broad strokes of The Full Moon for months now. Those authors did that because Stolas and Blitzø's characters are established extremely well, and as much as it hurt to see it play out, for it to have gone any other way would have been dissatisfying precisely because it would have rung hollow and false to the characters. Spindlehorse didn't need to surprise us with some cheap twist to make the episode work. What makes it work is the followthrough on what they have already telegraphed to us in previous episodes (that Blitzø frequently misinterprets Stolas' intentions), the excitement to see the minutae of what goes wrong and how (I didnt expect Stolas to have such an active role in how the exchange broke down!), every little detail in the way the characters are animated and the way the lines are delivered, call backs to shots from previous episodes.

They've been setting up the dominos for a long time now, and we finally get to see them topple. The pay off is exactly what we thought it would be, and that's what makes it work so well. It'd be disappointing if instead of the domino train bringing the tower down you just watched someone kick it over.

[magnecalliope]

In the original Japanese version of The Thousand-Year Door, Vivian was written as a transgender woman, but that element of Vivian's identity was removed in the English localization, where instead of bullying Vivian about her gender, Beldam called her ugly. Now, when Vivian is traveling with Mario in Chapter 4's Twilight Town, it's revealed that her original backstory is intact: "Truth is, it took me a while to realize I was their sister... not their brother," Vivian tells Mario. "Now their usual bullying feels heavier."

🎉🎉🎉 diversity win! this game's minor antagonists are now transphobes in english as well as japanese.

[magnecalliope]

fit swap feat. clownzy and fizzarozzie

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I heard this ship is illegal now or something so I figured I would repost the only art I ever made for it.

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Blitzø's love life may be in shambles but his qpr with Fizz is going stronger than ever so you know what? We stay silly.

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Hermitcraft s6 AU where everything is the same except Grian never changed the team name from Buildstone.

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I miss my wives, Tails. I miss them a lot.

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doodlin'.

got the idea for the first one from this post by @oatmealdoodles.

[magnecalliope]

Actually, the line "he did no reciprocating" in House of Asmodeus takes on a different meaning when you realize Blitz's relationship with Verosika fell apart because of his inability to say "I love you" back.